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Multimedia-based Medicinal Plants Sustainability Management System


Zacchaeus Omogbadegun, Charles Uwadia, Charles Ayo, Victor Mbarika, Nicholas Omoregbe, Efe Otofia and Frank Chieze

Medicinal plants are increasingly recognized worldwide as an alternative source of efficacious and inexpensive medications to synthetic chemo-therapeutic compound. Rapid declining wild stocks of medicinal plants accompanied by adulteration and species substitutions reduce their efficacy, quality and safety. Consequently, the low accessibility to and non-affordability of orthodox medicine costs by rural dwellers to be healthy and economically productive further threaten their life expectancy. Finding comprehensive information on medicinal plants of conservation concern at a global level has been difficult. This has created a gap between computing technologies' promises and expectations in the healing process under complementary and alternative medicine. This paper presents the design and implementation of a Multimedia-based Medicinal Plants Sustainability Management System addressing these concerns. Medicinal plants' details for designing the system were collected through semi-structured interviews and databases. Unified Modelling Language, Microsoft-Visual-Studio.Net, C#3.0, Microsoft-Jet-Engine4.0, MySQL, Loquendo Multilingual Text-to-Speech Software, YouTube, and VLC Media Player were used.

Keywords: Complementary and Alternative Medicine, conservation, extinction, medicinal plant, multimedia, phytoconstituents, rural dwellers

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Zacchaeus Omogbadegun
Zacchaeus Oni Omogbadegun holds B.Sc (Hons) Computer Science (Second Class Upper Div, 1979) from University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and M.Sc Computer Science (2003) from University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. He has over thirty years of progressively cognate experience in Information Technology spanning Software Engineering, Education and Training. He has worked either as an employee or Information Technology Consultant in bluechip industrial organizations within and outside Nigeria: Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd (1980-1990), Equitorial Trust Bank (1990-1994), and as an Information Technology Consultant to: Ghana’s Social Security & National Insurance Trust Software Replacement, Accra, Ghana, (1994-1996); Information Technology Consultant [Contract], FAO of the United Nations, Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana ( 06/1997 – 09/1997); Edo State Government of Nigeria’s Ministry of Education (01/1998- 12/1999); Ondo State Government of Nigeria & UNDP (Sept; 2000); Ekiti State Government of Nigeria’s Ministry of Health (Sept; 2001). He has represented his employers in Tanzania, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe at Software Internationalization Project programmes (1985-1997). He joined academics as Lecturer I (Computer Science) at The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria (June 2001 – September 2005). He joined Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria as Lecturer II (October 2005) and became Lecturer I (2008 - present). He is currently a PhD (Computer Science) student in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. His research interests are Software Engineering (Formal Methods), Healthcare Informatics, MDG’s Education and Health-related goals, Artificial Intelligence, Education Informatics, Neural Networks, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Security, Multimedia Database System, and Information Technology Laws. His presentations at both local and international conferences included “Security in Healthcare Information Systems”, “Impact of Mobile and Wireless Technologies on Healthcare Delivery Services”, and “3G and 4G Technologies\' Framework for Realising Millenium Development Goals in Healthcare in Nigeria”, He is a member of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS), and Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN).

Charles Uwadia
Professor Charles Onuwa Uwadia holds a BSc. Degree honours in Computer Science from the University of Ibadan in 1979. He had his MSc. in 1983 and PhD in 1990 both at the University of Lagos. Professor Uwadia joined the services of the University of Lagos as an Assistant Lecturer in 1983, and rose steadily to the post of a full Professor of Computer Science in the year 2004. His major area of specialization is Software Engineering with emphasis on Compiling Techniques and Systems Software. He is also actively involved in teaching and research work in networking, congestion control and management aspects of Information Technology. With over 50 publications in both local and international journals, he has three books to his name. He is an active member of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), and the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria. He is also a Fellow of NCS. He had served NCS in various capacities including: Chairman Education Committee (1997 – 1999); Chairman Conferences Committee (1999 – 2003); Chairman Publications Committee (2003 – July 2007). He is the current President of the Society. Besides his enviable service in Nigeria, Professor Uwadia has been a visiting Fellow to Universities and Institutions in the United States of America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He has many publications to his credit. Professor Charles Onuwa Uwadia is the current Director of the Centre for Information Technology and Systems (CITS) of the University of Lagos; a position he has held since 2005.

Charles Ayo
Professor Ayo Charles Korede holds a B.Sc. M.Sc. and Ph.D in Computer Science. He is currently the Director, Academic Planning Unit of Covenant University. He was the pioneer Head of Computer and Information Sciences Department of the University. His research interests include: Mobile computing, Internet programming, eBusiness, eGovernment and Software Engineering. He is a member of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS), and Computer Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN). Similarly, he is professionally certified in CISCO and Microsoft products. Prof. Ayo is a member of a number of international research bodies such as the Centre for Business Information, Organization and Process Management (BIOPoM), University of Westminster, London; the Review Committee of the European Conference on E-Government ECEG); the programme committee, IADIS Information Systems; the Editorial Board, Journal of Information and communication Technology for Human Development (IJICTHD), the Editorial Board, International Journal of Scientific Research in Education (IJSRE) and the Editorial Board, African Journal of Business Management amongst others. Furthermore, Prof. Ayo is an External Examiner to a number of Nigerian universities at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels in Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, the Redeemers University, Ogun State, Bells University of Technology, Ota, etc. He has supervised about 200 postgraduate projects at Postgraduate Diploma, Masters and Ph.D levels, and he has several publications in scholarly journals and conferences. Third Author is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society. Do not specify email address here.

Victor Mbarika
Prof. Victor W. Mbarika, Ph.D. is Houston Alumnae Endowed Professor at Southern University and A&M College (www.subr.edu)and is President of The ICT University which focuses on ICT training of stellar scholars based in developing nations worldwide from Bachelors through the Ph.D. level(www.ictuniversity.org). He is founding Executive Director of the International Center for Information Technology and Development (ICITD). He is also Visiting Professor at The University of Buea in Cameroon, Covenant University in Nigeria, Makerere University Business School in Uganda, as well as external examiner at several other Universities internationally. He is an information and communications technology (ICT) consultant with various governmental and private agencies. He holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the U.S. International University, a M.S. in MIS from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Ph.D. in MIS from Auburn University. Prof. Mbarika has authored over 150 academic publications in the form of books, peer reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. Much of his research is in the area of ICT transfer in developing economies as well as in resource-poor settings of developed economies. He was cited as being “in the forefront of academic research into ICT implementation in Africa, and has provided a theoretically-informed framework for understanding ICTs in less developed countries...” His scholarly publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on IT in Biomedicine, IEEE Spectrum, Communications of the ACM, The Information Society, and Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences. His work has also appeared in major media outlets such as Reuters and The Associated Press (AP), including numerous radio and TV appearances such as the BBC. He has received multiple research and teaching grants and fellowships, amounting to over $2 million, from the National Science Foundation, NASA, KPMG, Microsoft, Southern Regional Education Board and the Louisiana Board of Regents. Prof. Mbarika has also received the prestigious Fulbright grant. He is Editor-in-Chief of The African Journal of Information Systems and serves as senior board member for several other journals such as IEEE Transactions on IT in Biomedicine. Prof. Mbarika is member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA). He holds over 20 research, teaching and service excellence awards and has been featured on the cover page of several magazines highlighting his ICT research and consulting activities.

Nicholas Omoregbe
Nicholas Ikhu-Omoregbe is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. He holds a B.Sc degree in Computer Science from the University of Benin, Benin City, an M.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Lagos, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. His research interests include: Software Engineering, Mobile Computing, Multimedia technologies, Mobile Healthcare and Telemedicine Systems, and Soft Computing. He has written several articles published in International Conference Proceedings such as IEEE, International Journals and authored or co-authored about five books to date. He is a Reviewer for several conferences and a member of Editorial Board of some International Journals/Books such as IGI Global. He currently lectures in the Department of Computer and Information Systems, Covenant University, Ota, and has taught at Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University, Heidenheim, Germany as a visiting lecturer in the area of e-Health Systems.

Efe Otofia
A BSc (Computer Science) graduate of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria (2010/2011). His undergraduate project on medicinal plants was supervised by Omogbadegun, Zacchaeus.

Frank Chieze
Currently, a 400-Level of a five-year undergraduate programme of BSc (Electrical and Information Engineering) in Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.


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